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June 1, 2002

Shorter, too Andrew Northrup’s parody of National Review Online’s “The Corner” is sharper than that other recent attempt:
POSTMODERN WALMART HORROR [Trevor Shropshire]
I was in the Walmart the other day, pricing flags (nothing fancy, just a mid-range one-handed model for discreet waving, such as at cocktail parties or in church), when I noticed a jigsaw puzzle on the discount table. It depicted cute kittens playing with a ball of yarn. Can’t get more wholesome than that, right? Wrong! The side panel bore the legend “500 PC PUZZLE - Ages 5+”. That’s right - 500 PC! In our own Supermarkets, children as young as 5 are being exposed to the corrupting influence of East Coast humanities professors, whose “deconstruction” of a cute image of kittens is merely a gateway to a life of promiscuity, intravenous drug use, Beat poetry, cross-dressing and moral relativism. Maggie would never have let this happen.
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